VivantHaus
Artists

Paid at acquisition. Always.

We buy work outright at fair studio terms rather than taking it on consignment. The club carries the risk of holding it — which is the risk artists are least able to carry themselves.

Portrait of Ines Halldór

Ines Halldór

Reykjavík

Builds surfaces in wax and ground pigment until they hold light the way a wall holds warmth. Her boards are worked flat, then stood up and reconsidered for weeks.

Portrait of Matteo Ferrante

Matteo Ferrante

Milan

Paints interiors emptied of their occupants. He describes his palette as the colour of a room ten minutes after someone has left it.

Portrait of Yuki Namba

Yuki Namba

Kyoto

Works in a single sitting, on paper she makes herself. Nothing is corrected. What survives the morning is the work.

Portrait of Adaeze Okonjo

Adaeze Okonjo

Lagos and London

Dyes, cuts and stitches cloth into wall-scale compositions that record the hand that made them — visibly, deliberately, without apology.

Portrait of Elin Vestergaard

Elin Vestergaard

Copenhagen

Photographs the same stretch of coastline through the year in small editions, printing by hand in a darkroom she has used since 2004.

Portrait of Lucien Braud

Lucien Braud

Marseille

Presses and glazes stoneware panels that behave like drawings — shallow, tonal, and better in raking light than under a spotlight.

Terms

What we offer

  • Purchase at an agreed studio price, paid in full within thirty days of collection
  • No consignment, no sale-or-return, no waiting for a buyer
  • Professional condition reporting and conservation for the life of the work
  • Attribution on every placement, in the catalogue and in members' records
  • A resale participation of 10% should the club sell the work onward to a member
  • The right to request a work back for exhibition, with reasonable notice
  • Studio visits arranged with members, only where the artist wants them
An artist's studio with works in progress
Submissions

Sending us work

We review submissions quarterly. Send six to ten images, dimensions, materials, and a short note about the work — not a full CV. We are considerably more interested in what the surface does than where it has been shown.

Because works circulate between private homes, we favour pieces that tolerate movement: sound supports, stable media, and framing or mounting that can be handled repeatedly. Fragile and time-based works are considered case by case.

Submit work for review

If you make work that deserves a wall —

Write to us. We answer every submission, including the ones we decline.